The Top 10 List for Terabit Speed Wireless Personal Services

Abstract

The need for very high-speed (100 Gigabit to Terabit) wireless networks is less than a decade away. It is being driven by content rich multi-channel high-resolution video, gaming, virtual reality, collaboration, and other non-typical applications such as defense and warfare etc. In a decade from now, users will expect “the network” to exist everywhere which will make the whole paradigm to be centric upon applications and services. Therefore, we suggest that one must start to think purely from a services point of view and not simply drive the requirements for the underlying network technology (known as Personal Networks (PN)) without such consideration. In order to achieve widespread acceptance of PN, we suggest taking a top-down and integrated view of the overlying services—it should be services alone which drive these fundamental requirements. Barring a top-down view, it is our opinion that various impediments will be discovered late during the deployment stage leading to a slowdown or even complete abandonment of the technology and standards. This next generation paradigm shift should be called Personal Services (PS) as it will be centered on the individual and their services. This top-down approach however imposes challenges upon many dimensions. Not only does one have to care about the specific needs of the applications but also one has to work out how that maps into the underlying infrastructure. Although, this broad view may seem daunting at first and it may appear that one has to start all over again, we do not believe this to be the case. Our belief is that with a proper organization of exiting work and proper extensions of such work, sprinkled with a bit of innovation here and there, that within a matter of 4 or 5 years, one can develop a comprehensive solution which can serve as the building block of all future terabit services. In this paper, we will provide an overall structure and specifically, we will give an overview of the top 10 areas, which in unison can provide a resilient infrastructure for widespread and rapid adoption of PS.